Gaming. Dragon Ball. They go hand-in-hand. Did they always?
Jelli and Bekinney take a break from Akira Toriyama's worldwide manga and anime phenomenon (because we don't do enough of that, right?) by breaking down some early video games. We're talking about Dragon Ball 3: Goku Den, aka Dragon Ball: Goku's Story from the Famicom; Dragon Ball: Advanced Adventure for the Gameboy Advance; Dragon Ball: Origins and Dragon Ball: Origins 2, for the Nintendo DS
In this episode:
- Bekinney is checking the ship for abnormalities
- Cleaning up some items about pre-console video games and talking briefly about Tiger Electronics handhelds
- A reminder about TOSE Software, the programming company behind Dragon Ball 3: Goku Den
- TOSE's credits, including Bases Loaded, Mappy-Land, Toxic Crusaders, Tetris 2, Yoshi's Cookie, Resident Evil Survivor, Resident Evil Zero, Scarlet Nexus, Dragon Quest, WWE and Metal Gear Solid
- Dragon Ball 3 Goku Den story recaps and how it goes through the end of Dragon Ball
- We discuss early Nintendo RTS (real time strategy) games
- The port of Goku Den to the Wonderswan color, and a brief discussion about that system, including a reference to the Nintendo Virtual Boy and Gunpei Yokoi
- Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure story elements and how the game goes from the beginning of the story through the Demon King Piccolo arc
- How Dragon Ball Advanced Adventure's gameplay works and the mind behind its creation
- A brief summary of the company Banpresto
- Getting into Dragon Ball Origins and Yoshiki Okamoto, best known for creating Gyruss, 1942, and Street Fighter II. He also helped created Rockstar’s Red Dead franchise, and was a supervisor on Resident Evil 2 and Dino Crisis
- Discussing the use of the stylus on the Nintendo DS
- How Origins 2 functioned as a last-time-out for Stephanie Nadolny as Kid Goku and Tiffany Volmer as Bulma
- SURPRISE! We mention the game Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for the Nintendo Wii
- and more, including some general pop culture, trivia, and editorializing, as usual
Join us as we continue to uncover the cultural meanings, publication facts, inspirations and more behind the wildly popular Dragon Ball franchise.
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